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Inspiring Future Leaders
How do you teach a child how to lead? Being a leader is not about being a boss. It’s definitely not about telling people …

How To Be Creative
From my 2009 bestseller, “Ignore Everybody”: Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take …

The Next Big Disruption
The Gapingvoid team and I have collaborated on projects over the last decade focused on startups, corporate culture and innovation and audience engagement. Every now …

Inclusion – It’s the American way
In these times of political whack-a-mole, it’s good to remember that we Americans are, at our core, a nation of immigrants. Different peoples, different drums. …

Leadership Informs Culture
‘In this White House, it’s simply not in our DNA. Truthful and transparent is great, but we don’t even have a coherent strategy to obfuscate.’ – …

Make An Impossible Dream, A Future Reality
Some people wake us up. They bring us a new idea or a new way to do things. They challenge us to think differently, they …

Create Love Or Die
Why am I here? Why do I show up every morning? Sure, we all need to make a living. But compared to our caveman ancestors, …

What Failure Really Means
“I didn’t fail, I just did 10,000 experiments” – Thomas Edison Edison’s line is just him taking the scientist’s mindset to business. Which, of …

Start By Having Smarter Conversations
This image was originally commissioned by Len Schlessinger when he was President of Babson College. Prior to that, he was Co-Chairman and COO of The Limited. Len …

Why Engagement Surveys Don’t Do What They Promise
The consulting and HR world is obsessed with assessments. But let’s think about this whole assessments frenzy. Assessments imply that having employee data will help us …

Mindset is a way of living
“My body is a temple” sounds like something the hippie-vegetarian-yoga crowd imported from the East. Actually, the phrase originates from the New Testament, Corinthians 6:19. We all …

Congratulations Elon Musk!
There wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd watching the SpaceX launch yesterday. A testament to human potential. So we couldn’t help but think about “Create …
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